The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy (via Omnivore)

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, this is a new collection of links on philosophy and particularly on the state of analytic philosophy. Here are a couple of highlights:

• From PUP, the introduction to Analytic Philosophy in America: And Other Historical and Contemporary Essays by Scott Soames and the first chapter from The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 1: The Founding Giants by Scott Soames.  
• Scott Soames thinks philosophy is majestic and multi-faceted, is a leading philosopher of language and writes about the history and development of the analytic tradition in philosophy.

Enjoy the linkage.

The analytic tradition in philosophy

Oct 2 2014 

9:00AM

• Zhang Haipeng (Hong Kong): The Concepts of Analyticity. 
• Nat Hansen (Reading): Contemporary Ordinary Language Philosophy. 
• Eugen Fischer (East Anglia): Verbal Fallacies and Philosophical Intuitions: The Continuing Relevance of Ordinary Language Analysis. 
• Kevin C. Klement reviews The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy, ed. Michael Beaney. 
• From PUP, the introduction to Analytic Philosophy in America: And Other Historical and Contemporary Essays by Scott Soames and the first chapter from The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 1: The Founding Giants by Scott Soames.  
• Scott Soames thinks philosophy is majestic and multi-faceted, is a leading philosopher of language and writes about the history and development of the analytic tradition in philosophy. 
• From the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Tim Crane interviews John Searle: “What’s your view of the state of philosophy at the moment? I think it’s in terrible shape!” 
• Claudia Bianchi reviews The Philosophy of J. L. Austin by Martin Gustafsson and Richard Sorli. 
• Grace Boey interviews Peter Unger, author of Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy (and more). 
• Truth, success and Frank Ramsey: Pascal Engel interviewed by Richard Marshall. 
• Carlos M. Munoz-Suarez on the Tractatus: Is it so intractable? 
• Gabriele Contessa on analytic philosophy and the English language: Some data and some preliminary thoughts. 
• What's your opinion of history of analytic philosophy? The Leiter Reports readership revealed itself to be quite friendly to the history of analytic philosophy. 
• From Existential Comics, a special look at Dungeons & Dragons and Philosophers: The Analytic Turn; and the Analytics go to a bar and try to pick up a woman.